Science in the Triangle

Events taking place the week of Sept. 14 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public:

TUESDAY

11 a.m. to noon
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park
Rall Bldg. Room D350
Seminar: Inference for marginal linear models for clustered longitudinal data with potentially informative cluster sizes
Speaker: Dr. Somnath Datta, University of Louisville

Noon
TARDC luncheon
RTP headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, RTP
The speakers series starts with Moritz Beckmann, chief executive of XinRay Systems.
XinRay, an RTP startup that spun out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007, uses carbon nanotubes to develop X-ray machines that are smaller, simpler and able to produce more detailed pictures. The nanotube technology, which was developed in the laboratory of Otto Zhou, professor of materials sciences and physics at UNC-CH, can also be used for security screening at airports and XinRay recently received a $1.13 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security.
($35 for non-members)

WEDNESDAY

5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
CED biotech forum
N.C. Biotechnology Center, 15 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Panel discussion on how to advance clinical development when raising funds is difficult.
(Onsite registration rate: $30 for CED members, $50 for non-members)

THURSDAY

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
2009 North Carolina Management Systems Summit
N.C. State University, McKimmon Center, 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh
Dale Carroll, N.C. deputy secretary of commerce, will kick off the two-day summit on manufacturing best practices, continuous improvement and business retention and growh.
(Cost $395)

10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Room D450
Seminar: Chromatin and transcription
Speaker: Trevor K. Archer

2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Rall Bldg. Room D450
Seminar: The landscape of transcription initiation in D. melanogaster
Speaker: Dr. Uwe Ohler, Duke University

FRIDAY

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
2009 North Carolina Management Systems Summit
N.C. State University, McKimmon Center, 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh